Elizabeth Hales Instagram – 101st Anniversary!!! August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote!
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From the National Archives:
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The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920. Decades of struggle to include African Americans and other minority women in the promise of voting rights remained. Many women remained unable to vote long into the 20th century because of discriminatory state voting laws.
Beginning in the 1800s, women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. Between 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified. Some suffragists used confrontational tactics such as picketing, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. Often supporters met fierce resistance. Opponents heckled, jailed, and sometimes physically abused them.
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I am thankful for my ancestors that paved the way for me to have the right to vote. A simple honor that is overlooked and taken for granted.
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Votes for Women sash by @susanna.french
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